What were the first major incidents of racism in America?

I believe racism isn't about discriminating against blacks, hispanics, etc. Its discrimination, period. That been said, this is the most surprising fact about racism in America that has got me blown away in all honesty. read more

The first major incident that I believe qualifies an incident of racism in America is the hypocrisy and double standards present in the Declaration of Independence , both the original draft and the final one . read more

In the Wilson administration’s first congressional session “there were no less than twenty bills advocating ‘Jim Crow’ cars in the District of Columbia, race segregation of Federal employees, excluding negroes from commissions in the army and navy, forbidding the intermarriage of negroes and whites, and excluding all immigrants of Negro descent. read more

To answer your question, the signs that racism is truly gone (or at least low enough to be negligible) would be the following. We need to see arrests for drug crimes in proportion to who commits them. African Americans abuse marijuana at rates similar to Whites, but an African American kid is 6 times likelier to be in jail for that crime. read more